girls:
43 births since 2001
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1976
#3350 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1976
#6439 (17th percentile)
The name Keilan is the #6,439 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,303 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,350 (26.9% percentile) for all time with 1,260 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2001.
Keilan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 2001 for girls). Birth data for Keilan is available in 40 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023 (40 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Keilan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keilan reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #824) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keilan ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 72.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keilan reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #895) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keilan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Keilan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.5% confident that Keilan is pronounced as KAY-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-luhn, at 32.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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